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Directed by Chris Gatt
Starring Edward Mercieca, Denise Mulholland, Paul Portelli, Pia Zammit
Cert:TBC Duration: 90 min.
With Seascape, Albee won his second Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Albee himself directed the original Broadway production in 1975. It starred Deborah Kerr, Barry Nelson, Maureen Anderman .
It was recently revived at the Lincoln Centre, New York in 2006 and is getting its premiere in Malta this May.
Like many of Albee's plays, Seascape focuses on communication in interpersonal relationships, in this case between couples. Albee's first successful play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), and his first Pulitzer Prize-winning play, A Delicate Balance (1966), also concerned this topic.
Seascape is different from these dramas on several counts. The play is not strictly a drama but, rather a fusion of elements of comedy, fantasy, and satire, with a touch of the absurd.
In Seascape, Nancy and Charlie, an American couple on the verge of the major life change of retirement, are having problems in their relationship. They are discussing these matters on the beach when another couple appears…
Albee’s gentle wit shines through in a text which is both touching and delights springing surprises with its twists and turns, taking in subjects as diverse as family, evolution, getting old and the meaning of life.
A superb cast led by Edward Mercieca and Denise Mulholland as the older couple and Paul Portelli and Pia Zammit as the younger curious couple take on this rare Albee masterpiece which is guaranteed to provide food for thought and a poetically whimsical night.
"(The) rich beauty of language ... sparkles and shines throughout.....(Denise) Mulholland...can hold an audience spellbound for hours"
Kenneth Zammit Tabona Weekender
"(the) excellent set and lighting and above all the superb costumes and make-up of Paul Portelli and Pia Zammit.. make the production arresting visually and no doubt very memorable... (the director) has found himeslf four very fine performers. Denise Mulholland is a Nancy of great subtlety.. Edward Mercieca brngs out very well the mind of a man who has done all he thought he could do in life and now..... resist(s) disturbance from his past....Paul Portelli's Leslie is an impressive combination of animalily and humanity.. Pia Zammit skillfully manages to make us feel her femininty despite the monstrous exterior."
Paul Xuereb The Sunday Times
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